The point is: The nodes does not need to listen for multicast, and the SOLLICIT mcst can be actually be mapped onto a functional unicast address, in other words a 16bits PAN local address that targets the backbone router, as opposed to mac-level broadcast.
Pascal >-----Original Message----- >From: Benoit Lourdelet (blourdel) >Sent: jeudi 20 mars 2008 14:10 >To: Carsten Bormann >Cc: Jonathan Hui; Philip Levis; 6lowpan; Pascal Thubert (pthubert) >Subject: RE: [6lowpan] "cry out loud" vs. "white board" > > Cartsten, > >If we push DHCPv6 to the limit, only the SOLLICIT is multicasted, the rest of the messages (ADVERTISE, >REQUEST (through the unicast option), and REPLY are unicasted). > > >Regards > >Benoit > >-----Original Message----- >From: Carsten Bormann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:25 AM >To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) >Cc: Carsten Bormann; Jonathan Hui; Philip Levis; 6lowpan; Benoit Lourdelet (blourdel) >Subject: Re: [6lowpan] "cry out loud" vs. "white board" > >On Mar 20 2008, at 11:02, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: > >> DHCP is the protocol of choice to perform the registration > >Wait a minute; DHCP uses broadcast (well, link-scoped multicast). >So I don't know how much this helps as is. > >Gruesse, Carsten _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
